Pre-empting a battle with the PS6.
As it enters its ninth year, it’s fair to say that the Nintendo Switch has been quite the sales hit. Like, 150 million units, third best-selling console of all time, kind of a hit. We’ve previously heard analysts make the low-hanging fruit prediction that Switch 2’s sales numbers might not live up to that of its predecessor, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t come out of the gates at a full-on sprint — at least, that’s what Toyo Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda is expecting.
In a recent blog post on the Japanese GamesIndustry.biz website (via Tech4Gamers), Yasuda stated that he expects the Switch 2 to shift an impressive six million units in its first quarter — the second quarter of FY 2025/26 — assuming the console lands a July release. This, according to Yasuda would be an “incredible number” and could “completely shatter the widespread industry superstition that game consoles must be released during the year-end sales season” (translated via Google).
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